Norwegian Stem Cell Networking Meeting 2011
NORWEGIAN STEM CELL NETWORKING MEETING
17TH – 18TH OF OCTOBER 2011
LOSBY GODS
MONDAY 17th OF OCTOBER
OPENING
09.00 – 09.10Welcome
Stefan Krauss (SFI-CAST Biomedical Innovation Centre, OsloUniv.Hospital, Rikshospitalet)
Joel Glover (Norwegian Center for Stem Cell Research, Oslo Univ. Hospital, Dept. of Physiology, Inst. of Basic Medical Sciences, Univ. of Oslo)
09.10 – 09.20Ingrid Roxrud (The Research Council of Norway)
Stemcellness & tumours
Session ICancer Stem Cells
Chair: Stefan Krauss
09.20 – 09.50Key Note; Rolf Bjerkvig (Norlux Neuro-Oncology, Dept. of Biomedicine, Univ. of Bergen)
Cancer stem cells: What are they and can they be defined?
09.50 – 10.20Iver Langmoen(Dept. of Neurosurgery, OsloUniv.Hospital, Ullevål)
A Vaccine against Glioblastoma
10.20 – 10.50Ola Myklebost(Inst.for Cancer Research, OsloUniv.Hospital, the NorwegianRadiumHospital)
Tentative: "The involvement of mesenchymal properties in cancer progression"
10.50 – 11.10Discussions and short presentations
Biljana Stangeland (Vilhelm Magnus Laboratory for Neurosurgical Research)
Molecular Targets in Glioblastoma
11.10 – 11.25Coffee break
Session IIStem Cell Signalling
Chair: Stefan Krauss
11.25 – 11.55Barbara Stecca(Core Research Laboratory – Inst. Toscano Tumori c/o Dept. of Experimental Pathology and Oncology)
Hedgehog signaling in cancer stem cells
11.55 – 12.25Harald Stenmark (Inst. for Cancer Research, the NorwegianRadiumHospital)
Involvement of endosomes in stem cell signalling
12.25 – 12.55Stefan Krauss (SFI-CAST Biomedical Innovation Centre, Oslo Univ. Hospital, Rikshospitalet)
Novel ways of inhibiting Wnt/β-catenin signalling in the context of cancer
12.55 – 14.00Lunch
14.00 – 14.30Kjetil Taskén (Centre for Molecular Medicine Norway, University of Oslo)
Prostaglandin E2 and protein kinase A regulation of β-catenin nuclear translocation, tumor development and tumor immune responses in colorectal cancer
14.30 – 15.00Herwig Schüler (Structural Genomics Consortium, MBB, Karolinska Institutet)
15.00 – 15.30Discussions and short presentations
Jan Oxholm Gordeladze (Institute of Basal Medical Sciences, University of Oslo)
Consensus micro-arrays predicting functional osteochondral cells derived from stem cells
Session IIIPluripotency (ES/iPS): Genetics and Epigenetics
Chair: Rolf I. Skotheim
15.30 – 16.00Peter W. Andrews (Center for Stem Cell Biology, University of Sheffield, UK)
Culture Adaption in Human Embryonic Stem Cell Culture: Oncogenesis in vitro?
16.00 – 16.15Coffee break
16.15 – 16.45Arne Klungland (Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet)
5-hydroxymethylCytosine (5hmC) a novel epigenetic mark?
16.45 – 17.15Philippe Collas (Inst. of Basic Medical Sciences, Dept. of Biochemistry, Univ. of Oslo)
Epigenetic pre-patterning of the embryonic gene expression program
17.15 – 17.45Discussions and short presentations
Håvard Aanes (Dept. of Basic Sciences and Aquatic Medicine, NorwegianSchool of Veterinary Science)
Isoforms in the mid bastula transition transcriptome of zebrafish
17.45Aperitif and historical walk with guide
19.30Dinner
TUESDAY 18th OF OCTOBER
Translational efforts: Mesenchymal, ocular and umbilical cord stem cells
Session IVTranslational efforts: Mesenchymal, ocular and umbilical cord stem cells
Chair:Joel Glover
09.00 – 09.30Colin Bishop(The Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine)
Use of Amniotic Fluid Stem Cells for Immune Modulation
09.30 – 10.00 Jan E. Brinchmann(Inst.of Immunology, OUS, Rikshospitalet, NorwegianCenter for Stem Cell Research, Univ. of Oslo)
Molecular characterization of chondrogenic differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells
10.00 – 10.30Esben Østrup (Faculty of Dentistry, University of Oslo)
Mesenchymal stem cells in bone tissue engineering
10.30 – 10.45Coffee break
10.45 – 11.15Morten C. Moe (Dept. of Ophthalmology, OsloUniv. Hopsital, Ullevål)
Retinal stem cells in the adult eye – friend or enemy?
11.15 – 11.45Joel C. Glover (NorwegianCenter for Stem Cell Research, University of Oslo)
11.45 – 12.35Discussions and short presentations
Leonardo A. Meza-Zepeda (Inst.for Cancer Research, Oslo Uiv. Hospital, Radiumhospitalet)
Genetic and epigenetic characterisation of mesechymal differentiation
Jan Øivind Moskaug (Institute of Basal Medical Sciences, University of Oslo)
Immuno regulation by adipose MSCs
12.35 – 14.00Lunch
Session VIMaking Neurons from Different Directions
Chair: Joel Glover
14.00 – 14.30(Johan Ericson, KI)??
14.30 – 15.00Wayne Murrell(Vilhelm Magnus Laboratory for Neurosurgical Research)
Making Dopaminergic Neurons
15.00 – 15.30Massimo Pasqualetti(University of Pisa)
A targeted serotonergic neuron reporter stem cell line to model serotonergic neuron development and function
15.30 – 16.00Joel C. Glover?(NorwegianCenter for Stem Cell Research, University of Oslo)
16.00 – 16.30Discussion and short presentations
Lars Eide (Dept. of Medical Biochemistry, CMBN, Univ. of Oslo, OsloUniv.Hospital,
Rikshospitalet)
Impact of mitochondrial DNA damage on neural stem cell fate
Artem Faizullin(Vilhelm Magnus Laboratory for Neurosurgical Research)
Cell Therapy for Parkinson’s disease
16.30 – 16.45Closing remarks